Era Seven

Era Seven: The Emergence of Modern America (1890 - 1930)

Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882

Excerpts from Alfred T. Mahan, __The Influence of Sea Power upon History__, 1890

Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 1890

Ocala Platform of the People's Party, 1890

Omaha Platform of the Populist Party, 1892

Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

William Jennings Bryan, “Cross of Gold,” 1896

William McKinley’s Declaration of War, 1898

Spanish American War, 1898

Albert Beveridge, “March of the Flag,” 1898

Robert G. Ingersoll, “Should the Chinese Be Excluded?” 1898

Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League, 1899

John Hay, “The Open Door in China,” 1899-1900

Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America,” 1900

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904

Niagara Movement’s “Declaration of Principles,” 1905

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906

Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906

John Rockefeller, __Random Reminiscences of Men and Events__, 1908

The 16th Amendment, 1913

The 17th Amendment, 1913

Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points,” 1918

The 18th Amendment, 1919

Schenck vs. the United States, 1919

The 19th Amendment, 1920

“The Perfect 36”: Tennessee and the Ratification of the 19th Amendment, 1920

Tennessee's Ratification of the 19th Amendment (DocsTeach)

Scott Joplin and Early Jazz

Frances Harper

Jane Addams

Washington Gladden

W. E. B. Du Bois

Marcus Garvey

The Harlem Renaissance

Panama Canal